What Was I Thinking
August 6, 2007
I had a funny/odd thought recently while I was doing laundry. I was emptying the dryer, and it was one of those loads that was all shirts and didn’t seem to have an end. Around the four hundredth shirt, I got annoyed and thought, “What we need is someone to invent a hanging-up machine.”
A picture flashed in my mind of a woman scrubbing her clothes over those scrubbing boards (was there a technical term for them?) and saying, “What we need is someone to invent a machine to wash clothes for us.”
And then I pictured a woman sitting beside a running river, her hands in fists as her bearskin floated away with the current, and she said, “What we need is someone to invent a container for water so our bearskins quit floating away.”
Okay, don’t know if that last lady ever existed or not, but needless to say, I felt pretty silly for complaining about having to hang up my machine-washed and -dried laundry. Maybe someday there’ll be a machine to hang up clothes (someone please get to work on that!), but for now I’m thankful for my washer and dryer.
Long may they live.
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3 Responses to “What Was I Thinking”
It’s all about the perspective, isn’t it?
And now I’ll go put a load of laundry in my wonderful machine!
I don’t know about a machine that will hang shirts up for you, but I do know of a handy little do-dad that helps the folding process go quickly.
Same type of thing that department store use to keep all their shirts looking neat and tidy on the shelves.
Perhaps that’s a start!!
LOL, that’s a riot! Hey, if you can imagine it, someone can invent it. I’m not fond of hanging and folding a gazillion loads a week either (I think we run between 10 and 12.) But you can do it, you’re a super mom!